My son, I do not say these are foals and those asses, these little monkeys and those great baboons, as you would have me do. As I told you from the first,
GIORDANO BRUNOOur bodily eye findeth never an end, but is vanquished by the immensity of space.
More Giordano Bruno Quotes
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When we consider the being and substance of that universe in which we are immutably set, we shall discover that neither we ourselves nor any substance doth suffer death.
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I cleave the heavens and soar to the infinite. And while I rise from my own globe to others and penetrate ever further through the eternal field. That which others saw from afar, I leave far behind me.
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You explain right well, and you shew that you understand argument and are not a mere sophist since you accept that which cannot be denied.
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But I have reasoned deeply, and, speaking as a philosopher, since the soul is not found without body and yet is not body, it may be in one body or in another, and pass from body to body.
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I who am in the night will move into the day.
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Time is the father of truth, its mother is our mind.
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I fought, and therefore, believed in my victory. There is more to the fact that I didn’t fear death and preferred a brave death instead of a life of an idiot.
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In space there are countless constellations, suns and planets; we see only the suns because they give light; the planets remain invisible, for they are small and dark.
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Divinity reveals herself in all things.
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What you receive from others is a testimony to their virtue; but all that you do for others is the sign and clear indication of your own.
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The gems of philosophy are not less precious because they are not understood.
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The soul is not the body and it may be in one body or in another, and pass from body to body.
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With luck on your side, you can do without brains.
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The fools of the world have been those who have established religions, ceremonies, laws, faith, rule of life.
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For nothing is in fact diminished in its substance, but all things, wandering through infinite space, undergo change of aspect.
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